Mary Had A Little Jam

Title: Mary Had A Little Jam
Author: Bruce Lansky
Illustrator: Stephen Carpenter
Genre: Poetry

This is a cute little poetry book that has a bunch of little poems. I enjoyed these because they all rhymed and were short and sweet! The poem that stands out (because of the title) is Mary Had A Little Jam and it says,

"Mary had a little jam:
she spread it on a waffle.
And if she hadn't eaten ten,
she wouldn't feel so awful."

Which I thought was really cute, obviously it is a change from Mary Had A Little Lamb, but it was short and cute!
These poems are fun and easy to read to kids because they like to hear rhymes and try to com up with their own rhyming words, which is more difficult for kids than you would think. Another cool thing I noticed from the book is that the illustrations start with a bright day when all of the kids in the poems are playing around, and it ends with darker illustrations because the poems become more about tonight time and going to sleep! I think that was really neat and reading some of these rhyming poems would be a great example of rhyming to read to a class.